Ten Most Influential Art Movements Rebellions and revolution took place in the history of art movements. Many movements that are now praised were denounced and mocked at. Now they are one of the best ground breaking movements in the history of the early 20th century. Below we will explore the ten most influential art movements throughout history. Renaissance1400 With its Late Gothic elements & Northern Renaissance from c., the Early Renaissance includes 1450 & Renaissance of Italy akaHigh Renaissance (1492 to 1527). Coincides with the Early Netherlands(1450 to 1600. The Late Renaissance/Mannerism/Transitional Era also includes (1520-1600) Vitruvian Man c. 1490 by Leonardo da Vinci Impressionism 1870 Impressionism was establishedin France in the 19th centurywhen a crop of Parisian artists, including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro, became bored of their studios, bundled their brushes,paintings and canvasesandheaded outs ide. Sunset on the River at Lavacourt, Winter Effect (1882) by Claude Monet via creatiebloq.com Pointillism1880Pointillism is a painting technique pioneered by the French artists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, also known as 'stippling art' or 'dot art'. The duo branched off from their Impressionist friends to develop their tiny paint dabs and strokes into distinct color dots that shape coherent, complex and dimensional images when applied en mass (a little like our modern-day pixels, if you will). Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86) by Georges Seurat via The Art Institute of Chicago F Champenois Imprimeur Editeur (1897) by Alphonse Mucha via creativebloq Art Nouvean 1890 The famous party animal slash Frenchartist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was at the helm of Art Nouveau, a movement that between 1890 and 1910flourished in Europe and the US through architecture, furniture, jewelry, posters and illustrations. Cubism1907"In 1907, Spain's Pablo Picassoand French painter Georges Braque invented this revolutionary approach to portraying reality,dubbed "the first abstract style of modern art. The artistic"odd couple" turned away from more figurative forms and towards total abstraction after meeting in Paris, creating Cubism together. Girl with Mandolin (1910) by Pablo Picasso via Modernism Futurism1909 Futurism was launched in 1909 by Italian poet and art theorist Filippo TommasoMarinetti, influenced by the thrilling moment when he wrote down his car in a ditchafter swerving to miss a cyclist. Bombardamento Aereo by Tullio Crali (1932) via creativebloq Art Deco1920 The Art Deco movement emergedfrom Art Nouveau in the 1920s andattempted to embellish mass produced, functional constructionssuch as clocks, cars and buildings. It reached the height of its popularitybetween the World Wars and sought to represent luxury, glamour, technological and social advancement (you'll get thedrift if you've seen The Great Gatsby). Adolphe Mouron Cassandre’s Le Nord Express (1927) Surrealism1924It may have been founded by André Breton, the Parisian poet, but the father of Surrealism is undoubtedly Salvador Dalí of Spain (of the alarmingly upturned mustache). This artistic and literary movement emerged in 1924, drawing inspiration from the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud, who made a career of tapping into his patients' subconscious minds. Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory (1931) via My Modern Met Pop Art1950Pop Art was named by art critic Lawrence Alloway primarily as a British and American cultural phenomenon that gained traction in the late 1950s and 1960s, because of the way it glorified popular culture and elevated commonplace, often unremarkable objects such as soup cans, road signs and hamburgers to iconic status. Andy Warhol's iconic prints of Marilyn Monroe Minimalism1960Minimalist art avoided artisticexpression, preferring to keep things literal (as Frank Stella, one of the founders of Minimalism,said of the movement,' What you see is what you see'). The key to this movement was extreme simplicity, where themedium and the materialsstole the show from theartists behind them. Frank Stella’s Harran II (1967) via Guggenheim.com

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